Re: Windows NT and EMS for DOS programs

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From: Anders Borum
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 00:00

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Daniel W. Mathiasen <mathiasen.news@nospam.iname.com> wrote in message news:MPG.11ac9f30dc5ce5f5989691@news.tele.dk...
> In article <SPP%2.47$ZM4.153@news.get2net.dk>, abor@pixeleers.dk.spam.no state..
> > 
> > Try using CreateProcess to call the shortcut (with correct memory =
> > settings) directly?
> > 
> It will work, but I have no way of creating the short-cut on the customer 
> machines. So it isn't a feasible solution. :-(

I assume that the reason you cannot create the shortcut on the customer machines is because shortcuts to dos-programs are not true Shell-links but instead pif files. And the reason you cannot just supply a Program Information File along with the executable, is because the directory would be incorrect.

If you created the pif-file manually and then used the Shell-API til change the program path.
IShellLink->SetPath() might be used for this purpose.

I'm not sure it will work, since pif-files are only links from a certain perspective.

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